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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/08/2026
i wrote this last year but there is literally no publicly available evidence that donald trump knows what a tariff actually is
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Jason Concepcion @netw3rk.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Creativity is built from years of writing book reports based on the book jacket synopsis of books you didn’t read. 800-1000 words of pure flow on the page. AI has destroyed this.
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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
retelling of the Iliad but in a university classics department. camps of professors fighting it out. it lasts for tenures
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joe2000.bsky.social @joe2000.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Melvin Pillows
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/07/2026
in a lot of ways the current republican government is just the worst, extractive red state governance taken national. total hostility to public goods, total indifference to long-term investment, and a monomaniacal interest in using the state to enrich private benefactors
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Trump doesn’t force people to do bad things. All he did was show people they could get away with being horrible if they really wanted to, and a lot of powerful people decided they didn’t need to pretend anymore. Especially those in influential positions who could push back but did not.
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 07/07/2026
has there ever been a man so effective at demolishing the vibe. historic scarer of the hoes
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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Happy “liberal arts professor helps save the Union” day to all who celebrate
Charge of the 20th Maine at Little Round Top
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Lee Cronin’s Pablo Hidalgo @infinata.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
"Wanna know how I got this divorce?"
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/06/2026
thomas simply couldn't join the opinion, this corrupt, misanthropic bigot had to throw in his two cents and put his bigotry into the record
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/06/2026
trump is stealing a golf course used by ordinary washingtonians and giving it to his rich friends
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FrankTaylor24 @dock75.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
www.alternet.org/trump-vanity...
alternet.org
Trump looted nearly $1 billion from 'struggling' National Parks to pay for vanity projects
In March, President Donald Trump claimed that a series of flippant White House renovations costing $1.3 million were “paid for by me,” but new reporting in the Atlantic has revealed that, in fact, Ame...
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
The new racist double standard set up by Alito in the TPS ruling: if there’s any other motive in addition to the racism, the racism doesn’t count, but if the state wants to *prevent* discrimination against black people, that is racist and unconstitutional www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
The Roberts Court has been turning anti-discrimination law upside down for years. Its approach came into particular focus in May, with Louisiana v. Callais, in which it determined that not allowing Louisiana’s government to dilute Black votes was racist. In that case, Alito insisted that forcing the state to draw a second majority-Black congressional district would be an “unconstitutional racial gerrymander” because Republicans were entitled to discriminate against Black voters if they argued that their purpose was partisan instead of racist. The Court reaffirmed that position in a subsequent case dealing with Alabama, after a lower court had found ample evidence of deliberate racial discrimination, as opposed to the discriminatory effect of the Louisiana map.

Mullin now sets up an even more impossible double standard. If the government wants to discriminate against Black people, any pretext will do. “As long as there is a plausible basis—any plausible articulable basis—for the government’s action, then the Court will look to that basis as sufficient,” Aderson Francois, a law professor at Georgetown University, told me, “even in the face of evidence that government actors were motivated by animus.” If a Black person wants to prove they’ve been discriminated against, however, no amount of evidence will suffice.
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another morgan @mheslin.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
imagining a grizzled hardboiled detective saying this while gripping some guy's lapels at a shady bar
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/06/2026
this is a great illustration of one of the fundamental insights of democracy — that there is no such thing as "the people" and that majorities are elusive and ever shifting. no election, no decision, is final and treating an election as a final decision is profoundly undemocratic.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 12/06/2026
Elon Musk just became the world's first trillionaire. The typical American household would have to work more than 11 MILLION years to make Elon Musk's level of wealth. We need a wealth tax.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
he's been dreaming about "taking the oil" for decades. Sacrificing US troops in order to steal oil from the middle east is one of his Big Longstanding Foreign Policy Ideas. He's also very lazy and bluffs constantly so who knows.
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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
so, this is deeply, deeply horrifying thedreydossier.substack.com/p/i-found-a-...
thedreydossier.substack.com
I found a second vote.gov — and it's registered to the White House
There is a moment in every investigation where the thing you have been looking for finds you instead.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
They're stealing billions of your money to pay off violent right-wing psychos while doing everything in their power to spike gas up to $5 a gallon, make groceries into a luxury and hand the country over to the oligarchs who want to permanently replace you.
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NBA @nba.com · 05/05/2026
MINNESOTA WINS GAME 1 VS. SAN ANTONIO ‼️ Julius Randle: 21p, 10r Anthony Edwards: 18p, 8-13 fgm Jaden McDaniels: 16p Terrance Shannon Jr.: 16p Game 2: Wednesday, 9:30pm/et, ESPN
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Steve Jones @stevejones20.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Wemby setting the record for blocks in a playoff game and Anthony Edwards and the Wolves not caring is where the fun is at.
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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
FDR’s Fireside chat on March 9, 1937 explaining his proposal to expand the Supreme Court stands up surprisingly well. “We have reached the point as a nation where we must take action to save the Constitution from the Court and the Court from itself.”/1
We have, therefore, reached the point as a nation where we must take action to save the Constitution from the Court and the Court from itself….We want a Supreme Court which will do justice under the Constitution and not over it. In our courts we want a government of laws and not of men. 
I want—as all Americans want—an independent judiciary as proposed by the framers of the Constitution. That means a Supreme Court that will enforce the Constitution as writtten, that will refuse to amend the Constitution by the artibrary exercise of judicial power—in other words by judicial say-so. It does not mean a judiciary so independent that it can deny the existence of which which are universally recognized.
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
"A DOSUNMU TSUNAMI"
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joe2000.bsky.social @joe2000.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Need Ant to show up for this game sooner or later.
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joe2000.bsky.social @joe2000.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Let the hate flow through you Jaden
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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Current status of the Strait of Hormuz dispute
In Bruges scene where Colin Farrell is pointing a gun at his head and Brendon Gleeson is also pointing a gun at Colin Farrell's head
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/04/2026
don’t forget that wilson thinks black people should be enslaved!
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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I think people are allowed to draw conclusions about the American people based on their decision to put this man in office bsky.app/profile/pear...
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
John Calhoun said the U.S. was a "white man's government." John Bingham, one of the authors of the 14th Amendment, said that this was a "horrid blasphemy." The birthright citizenship case is ultimately about which America we are going to be. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
So why was this case brought before the Court at all? For the same reason that Cowan’s racist invocation of “yellow peril” has survived to the present day, repeated in modern form by both the president and his solicitor general. Before the Civil War, America was a white man’s government. The Reconstruction Amendments were supposed to change that, to prevent not just the existence of masters and slaves but master classes and slave classes. Trump and those around him would like to change it all back. It is hardly surprising, then, that they would revive the same arguments against birthright citizenship that the framers heard in the 1860s.
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Suzanne ✨🌑 @tendermiasma.com · 03/03/2026
Don't let them kill free speech, call your reps ahead of Thursday when bills including KOSA will be discussed again
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 26/02/2026
Donald Trump canceled Direct File after giant tax prep companies spent millions lobbying. Why? Because Direct File let you file your taxes for free. So today, I’m introducing a bill to make Direct File the law of the land. And 160 members of Congress are joining me.
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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 09/02/2026
I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
It’s just racism. There’s no immigration problem
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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
So fucking infuriating watching Bezos and his cronies kill the Post. Taking away sports, books, and international reporting so you can write opinions praising Trump is so damn bleak.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.
newrepublic.com
DHS Hunts Down 67-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Who Criticized Them in Email
The Department of Homeland Security is using a little-known tool to go after its critics.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
74% of Democrats support abolishing ICE, with 53% *strongly* supporting it, according to YouGov polling from last month. Weak calls for "reform" are coming from *elected* Democrats like Chuck, not the average Democratic voter.
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Britt Robson @brittrobson.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Kelly Dwyer is a hoops journalist OG both in service time and originality. His watches all the games--omnivorous!--and his takes on what he sees are a distinctive delight. I loved his prelude to all his wild Giannis trade scenarios (which is "don't trade Giannis). www.kdonhoops.com/dont-trade-g...
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Don't trade Giannis
To make good for his new team, Giannis Antetokounmpo does not need to rush back from his most recent debilitating calf strain and risk a greater injury we don't want to mention. The Bucks, the franch...
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joe2000.bsky.social @joe2000.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
The NBA needs to postpone the game today between the Warriors and Wolves @nba.com
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I am trying not to post on these events in this state of mind but: I hope people understand what the observers are doing is brave and dangerous.
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T @tpqrs.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Witnesses are being taken to Whipple. From a lawyer friend: “They’re trying to keep local PD and BCA from getting statements and confiscating any phones with video.”
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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 24/01/2026
Every single one of them is risking their lives against death squads to prove that the fascist vision of America, a country where we hate everyone different than ourselves, is a fucking lie
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
ICE has now carried out two summary executions of innocent people in the streets of an American city. If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.
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joe2000.bsky.social @joe2000.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
College football, the heartwarming story of a guy selling his nba franchise to the IDFs biggest supporters to buy his own national championship team.
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Winnie the Pooh (Official) @indianawalsh.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools
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ill-boo-mi @yallchemist.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Use code WWIII and receive a $500 bonus when you bet on the fate of Greenland with DraftKings
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